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 UM-Dearborn - French Studies
Stéphane Spoiden, Ph.D., 19th and 20th century French literature and culture, business French and the culture of business, French cinema, Francophone literature and culture (Maghreb), the European Union.
Bernadette Lintz, Ph.D., 19th century French literature, 17th century French literature, French theater as genre, the French novel, contemporary French civilization, 19th and 20th century interdisciplinary studies.
Gabriella Eschrich, Ph.D., Italian and French literature of the Renaissance and of the Baroque periods, theories and application of second language teaching, writing women of the Renaissance, translation.
www.umd.umich.edu /academic/casl/fren.html   (630 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - decadents (English Literature, 19th Century) - Encyclopedia
The decadents venerated Baudelaire and the French symbolists, the group with whom they are often mistakenly identified.
The epithet was first applied in the 1880s to a group of self-conscious and flamboyant French poets, who in 1886 published the journal Le DEcadent.
In reaction to the naturalism of the European realists, the decadents espoused that art should exist for its own sake, independent of moral and social concerns.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/decadent.html   (303 words)

  
 Renan, Taine, and positivism (from French literature) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
French thinker, critic, and historian, one of the most esteemed exponents of 19th-century French Positivism.
The French language was one of the five major Romance languages to develop from Vulgar Latin as a result of the Roman occupation of western Europe.
After the failure of what was seen as the vague idealism of the 1848 revolution, a consciously scientific spirit, directed toward observed fact, came to dominate the study of social and intellectual life.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-22556   (841 words)

  
 Language Courses
A study of the literary movements in 19th century French literature based on a historical approach to representative authors and works.
A survey of 20th century French literature and culture that reflects the social and intellectual trends in modern France.
A general study of literary French, done in the context of a survey of the major texts, authors, and movements in French literature with emphasis placed on the theories and techniques of literary analysis.
www.seattleu.edu /artsci/forlang/LangCourses.htm   (826 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - French Literature
The greatest lyric poet of the 18th century was André Chénier, whose fate dramatized the difficult position of writers during the French Revolution.
Similarly, the literary history of the 19th century is of a series of efforts to replace the classicism of the 17th and 18th centuries and its emphasis on order, reason, and clarity.
This period was marked by conflict between the French king and the pope; the prohibition of the Jansenist sect at Port Royal; the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, resulting in renewed persecution of Protestants; and the increased suffering of the lower classes.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761552714_3/French_Literature.html   (3522 words)

  
 Dickinson College - Academics - French and Italian Faculty
His scholarship has focused on 19th and 20th century French literature, particularly the mythopoesis of culture in crisis, 20th century theatre with emphasis on the theatre of the absurd, the theory of humor, and currently, realms of memory in contemporary French issues.
She specializes in French literature of the 20th century, focusing on the evolution of the modern novel, narrative and feminist theory; and in cinema studies.
Her scholarship has focused on 18th century French literature, particularly Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the advent of autobiography in modern culture.
www.dickinson.edu /cgi-bin/facshow.cgi?French+and+Italian   (596 words)

  
 French Course Descriptions
FREN 409 French Literature of the 19th Century: Novel (3, S07, S10)
FREN 485 Senior Capstone: French (3, S) Taken as the final course in a French major, this course allows students to demonstrate mastery of the target language and integration of their knowledge of related cultures, history, literature, and linguistics.
Masterpieces of French literature from its beginnings to the present.
www.houghton.edu /academics/classes/FREN.HTM   (422 words)

  
 A2Z Languages: Information on Specialized Courses, French Art, Literature at France Langue French immersion school in Paris
History: French 19th century history from Louis XVI to the Second Empire required for French literature and Art History.
Including French Classicism and the XVIIth century - The age of Enlightenment and the XVIIIth century - Romanticism, Realism and Naturalism in the XIXth century - and concludes with the XX th century from a rupture with the past to writers who have revolutionized the French Literary scene of today.
From Napoleon III and colonial expansion to political and economical ideologies in the 19th century - from laws against children under 12 working and free mandatory education to the beginning of the 20th century.
www.a2zlanguages.com /France/Paris/Langue/langue_art_literature.htm   (885 words)

  
 French faculty at UA
Her graduate courses include the 20th and 21st century French and Francophone novel, Critical Theory, Feminism, Myth and Literature, and Film and Literature.
At the undergraduate level, she teaches courses in French studies, French phonetics and English-French translation, commercial French, French civilization, as well as courses in contemporary French and Francophone literature.
Her interest in French Canadian literature resulted in a number of articles on Quebec feminist writers, such as Madeleine Monette, Francine D'Amour, France Théoret, and Monique LaRue.
www.bama.ua.edu /~mlc/french/faculty.html   (829 words)

  
 French Theatre, Opera & Ballet - The Arts in France
French theater in the 19th century was at first dominated by the romantic dramas of Victor Hugo, whose Hernani (1830; Eng.
France's political position as the most powerful nation in Europe during the reign of Louis XIV was reflected in the preeminence French literature attained in the 17th century.
During the following century, the lively plays of Pierre de Marivaux inspired the term marivaudage, meaning the style in which the subtle psychological components of love and dalliance were portrayed by the playwright.
www.discoverfrance.net /France/Theatre/DF_theatre.shtml   (1699 words)

  
 FRE French Courses
Representative masterpieces and significant movements of French literature of the Middle Ages through the 18th century.
FRE 535 French Literature of the 16th Century.
FRE 451 French Poetry of the 19th Century.
www.public.asu.edu /aad/catalogs/spring_2002/fre.html   (824 words)

  
 French Program Faculty - Charles R. McCreary
My teaching interests include teaching language at all levels, French literature of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries and using technology in teaching.
I received my Ph.D. in 17th century French literature from Northwestern University in 1986.
Please let me know what you think of our website.
www.chss.iup.edu /frgm/mccreary.htm   (47 words)

  
 facultyf.html
His area of specialization is 19th century French and 19th and 20th century Francophone literatures.
He is the author of a book on 17th century French tales as a literary genre bearing on the mergence of 20th century critical theories.
Lecturer of French; Ph.D. in French literature, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2002; M.A. in English and American literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1987; joined the department in 2002.
www.uwyo.edu /modlang/Faculty-GA's/facultyf.html   (47 words)

  
 Sites on French literature
Dix-Neuf -- a list of resources on 19th-century French culture and literature
The Joseph Sablé collection on 19th-century French literature
Please note that the division into French and Francophone literatures is often artificial, but necessary for these long web pages.
www.nd.edu /~cperry/links_french.html   (47 words)

  
 BUBL LINK: French literature
Selected poems from 19th and 20th century English and French language Canadian poets such as Duncan Campbell Scott, Susanna Moodie, Charles G D Roberts, Albert Ferland, Archibald Lampman, and E Pauline Johnson.
A bibliography and research aid for the 20th century French poet Raymond Queneau.
A collection of electronic texts in French with access to full text collections, single text sites and links to other publications including some to French magazines and newspapers.
www.bubl.ac.uk /link/f/frenchliterature.htm   (47 words)

  
 Department of French - Trinity College Dublin
20th-century French intellectual, political and social history; history of ideas in late 19th and early 20th century Europe; right and left-wing counterrevolution, nationalism and fascism(s) in France, 1880s-1945.
the 'Return of the Subject' in contemporary French though and literature
Linguistics; Second language acquisition; Sociolinguistics of French, especially attitudes towards regional languages and varieties in France, and language variation.
www.tcd.ie /French/pages/research.php   (329 words)

  
 Grove City College
This 17th century French playwright is one of the greatest masters of comedy and satire in all literature.
One of the greatest French poets of the 19th century, Baudelaire was also an important critic, a translator of Edgar Allan Poe's tales, and an influence on the later Symbolist movement.
This 20th century Russian novelist was imprisoned and eventually deported for criticizing the communist regime in the U.S.S.R. He wrote One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Cancer Ward, The First Circle, and the massive Gulag Archipelago, in which he revealed the horrors of Stalinist labor camps.
www.gcc.edu /news/publications/littorenew.htm   (329 words)

  
 People -- Staff -- Nanovic Institute for European Studies -- University of Notre Dame
Areas of interest: French literature of the 19th and early 20th centuries with a focus on poetry, intellectual history, literary theory, gender studies, representations of North Africa in European literature and painting, and francophone literatures from the Maghreb
Areas of interest: Medieval Spanish literature and comparative medieval literature; more recent research approaches 14th- and 15th-century peninsular literature and culture incorporating cultural studies and feminist theory and centers on converso texts (Jewish converts to Christianity), literature and the law, and the Inquisition
Areas of interest: Definition of culture in the foreign language classroom, its place in the curriculum, and the methods of assessment of the acquisition of culture, the use of modern technologies (video and the Internet) in the teaching of culture in the foreign language classroom, French and Francophone cinema.
www.nd.edu /~nanovic/people/romancell.html   (329 words)

  
 Welcome to Italy1 Literature page of 19 and 20 Centuries
From the beginning of the 19th century until 1870, when the evacuation of French troops from Rome removed the last trace of foreign domination, the prevailing influence in Italian literature and in almost every phase of Italian life was nationalism, in its particular Italian form called the Risorgimento.
At the turn of the century, as the attempt to expand Italy's colonial empire became dominant in politics, a preoccupation with individual rather than social concerns began to be reflected in literature.
Early 19th-century Italian literature was marked not only by nationalism but also by a lingering classicism and by a new spirit of romanticism, which, emphasizing history and tradition, encouraged nationalism.
italy1.com /literature/19_20_centuries.php   (3554 words)

  
 Welcome to Italy1 Literature page of 19 and 20 Centuries
From the beginning of the 19th century until 1870, when the evacuation of French troops from Rome removed the last trace of foreign domination, the prevailing influence in Italian literature and in almost every phase of Italian life was nationalism, in its particular Italian form called the Risorgimento.
At the turn of the century, as the attempt to expand Italy's colonial empire became dominant in politics, a preoccupation with individual rather than social concerns began to be reflected in literature.
Early 19th-century Italian literature was marked not only by nationalism but also by a lingering classicism and by a new spirit of romanticism, which, emphasizing history and tradition, encouraged nationalism.
italy1.com /literature/19_20_centuries.php   (3554 words)

  
 GRADUATE STUDY AT BILKENT UNIVERSITY
The candidates may be required to learn additional languages according to their fields of concentration: Persian and/or Arabic for 13th Century Literature and Ottoman Literature; a Turkic language and Russian for Ancient Turkish Literature and Turkic Literatures; French and/or German for 19th Century Literature and 20th Century Literature.
Fields of concentration are: Ancient Turkish Literature, 13th Century Literature, Ottoman Literature, Folk Literature, 19th Century Literature, 20th Century Literature, and Turkic Literatures.
Applications will be evaluated on the basis of the applicant's scholastic record, level of proficiency in Turkish and English, a written examination designed to assess his/her ability to critically analyze literary texts, and an interview.
www.art.bilkent.edu.tr /graduate99/turkish   (3554 words)

  
 American University Library - Languages and Linguistics: French Language and Literature
Gallica Classique is a full-text collection of French Literary Studies from the Middles Ages to the 19th century.
This site has links to a variety of contemporary French literature resources including an index of contemporary authors and other literary links.
Literature and Culture of Francophone Africa and the Diaspora
www.library.american.edu /subject/language/french.html   (3554 words)

  
 French Literature - 19th Century
he colossus of 19th-century French novelists, however, was Honoré de Balzac, whose prodigious, multivolume Human Comedy (1842-48; Eng.
Poetry completely recovered its elan, while the novel, as the most suitable genre for registering the social upheavals brought first by the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars and then by the expansion of capitalism and the industrial revolution, ultimately became the dominant mode of expression.
Zola's naturalistic oeuvre was the application of this hypothesis to literature.
www.discoverfrance.net /France/Literature/DF_literature5.shtml   (3554 words)

  
 Pathfinder - High School AP French Literature
Catholic Encyclopedia: French Literature A basic history through the 19th Century.
ATHENA Textes Français: Texts of French literature and other works.
Turner, St. Ignatius HS Gallica Classique From the Bibliotheque Nationale, the texts of French masterpieces (100,000 texts and 300,000 images).
www.lkwdpl.org /lhs/frenchlit   (3554 words)

  
 French and Francophone Literature
The ARTFL French Women Writers Project is a searchable database containing works by 25 French women authors from the 16th to the 19th century.
This site (available in French or English) contains information and links regarding the history and development of the language and literature of France through 1400 A.D. It was created and is maintained by a graduate student in French Linguistics at Indiana University.
Their mission is to promote French language and culture by serving and educating the culturally diverse Francophone and Francophile communities of Boston and New England.
www.lib.uconn.edu /online/research/bysubject/french.htm   (2423 words)

  
 Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links
19th Century French Literature (2000 + different works)
THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF FRENCH I am proud to be a member.
Survey of French Literature-2 (partially web-delivered course, under construction)
www.utm.edu /departments/french/french.html   (2423 words)

  
 History of literature
Egyptian literature was not included in early studies because the writings of Ancient Egypt were not translated into European languages until the 19th century when the Rosetta stone was deciphered.
The history of literature is the historical development of writings in prose or poetry which attempt to provide entertainment, enlightenment, or instruction to the reader/hearer/observer, as well as the development of the literary techniques used in the communication of these pieces.
In the middle of the century the king of England was overthrown and a republic declared.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/H/History-of-literature.htm   (2423 words)

  
 History of literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Egyptian literature was not included in early studies because the writings of Ancient Egypt were not translated into European languages until the 19th century when the Rosetta stone was deciphered.
The history of literature is the historical development of writings in prose or poetry which attempt to provide entertainment, enlightenment, or instruction to the reader/hearer/observer, as well as the development of the literary techniques used in the communication of these pieces.
In the middle of the century the king of England was overthrown and a republic declared.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_literature   (4194 words)

  
 1600s, 17th Century
Voltaire came here, and Rousseau; Beaumarchais, Balzac, Verlaine and Hugo; from La Fontaine to Anatole France the list of the habitues of the Procope is a list of the great names in French literature.
In the 19th century it was seen as a social commentary, but no one could easily tell "whose side Cervantes was on".
It was here in the 18th century that the new liberal philosophy was expounded; this was the cafe of Encyclopedistes, of Diderot, Voltaire, d'Alembert and Benjamin Franklin; the history of the Procope is closely linked with eighteenth century revolutionary ideas.
www.jahsonic.com /1600s.html   (4194 words)

  
 French 265 : Romanticism, Symbolism, and Decadence in 19th Century Literature
Ref PC 2625.I4 [A dictionary of the French language of the 19th and 20th centuries.
[Captures ten centuries of work produced in France and in other French-speaking countries around the world.
Appendices give a chronological list in parallel columns of history and literature, and a list of entries by subject matter or chronological period.
bailey.uvm.edu /ref/fr265ref.html   (4194 words)

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